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a` Kempis, Thomas, 44, 89, 148–153 Aldersgate Renewal Ministries, 280 The Garden of the Soul, 150 Algeria, 253 The Imitation of Christ, 44 Alleine, Joseph A Short Account of the Death of Elizabeth An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners Hindmarsh (1777), 156 (1782), 156 Abbeville, South Carolina, 290 Alleine, Joseph and Richard, 153 Abilene, Kansas, 273 Alleine, Richard Adelaide, Australia, 256 Vindiciae Pietatis Or, A Vindication of Africa, 261 Godliness (1663), 156, 240 south central, 253 Allen, Richard, 283, 288–289, 294–296 African American Methodism, 291 And Can It Be That I Should Gain, 284 African American Methodists conversion of, 284 on Methodism, 292 Alley, Mary, 249, 260 African Methodism, 285, 289, 290, 293, 297 America, 246, 247 African Methodist Episcopal Church American Academy of Religion, 6 (AME), 285–294 American Civil War, 19, 88, 258, 268–270, Bethel, 285–286, 288–289 290 Bryan, Grasonville, Maryland, 286 American Methodism, 71, 247, 254, 286, clergy, 294 296, 300 in South Africa, 252 in Asia, 254 missionaries, 251 in China, 255–256 New York City, New York, 288 in Latin America, 257–259 Oxon Hill, Maryland, 286 in South Africa, 252 St. Paul, 295 ordinations, 57 Truth, Sojourner, 26, 288 American Revolution, 65, 247, 283, 312 Woodlawn, 295 American Society of Church History, 9 Zoar, Philadelphia, 286 Ames, Edward R., 270 African Methodist Episcopal Zion An Extract from John Nelson’s Journal (AME Zion), 286–287, 289, 292, 294, (London, 1782) 296 printing of, 158 missionaries, 251, 291 An Extract of Miss Mary Gilbert’s Journal African slaves, 73, 84 (1768), 156 African Wesleyan Methodist Episcopal An Extract of the Life and Death of Mr. Church, 282 John Janeway (1749), 156 Age of Reason, 15, 39 An Extract of the Life and Death of Mr. Agricultural Revolution, 14 Thomas Haliburton (1739), 156 Alabama, 290, 294 An Extract of the Life of Monsieur de Albania, 260 Renty (1741), 156 Aldersgate, 47–48, 85, 86, 91, 100, 116, 118, analogy of faith, 125 134, 300, 305 ancien regime´ , 73, 74, 76

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Anglican Austria, 259 religious societies, 32 awakening Anglican Renewal Ministries and as corporate expression, 81 Headway, 279 New England, 85 Anglicanism, 18, 25, 34, 61, 64–66, 69, 99, Azusa Street, 276, 277 190, 201, 300 preaching, 99 Bacon, Francis, 161, 163, 173, 175 Anglicans, 37, 60, 92–94, 119, 191, 257 Bahamas, 250 Angola, 252 Baker, Frank, 130, 132 animals, 168, 171 A Union Catalogue of the Publications Antigua, 249, 260 of John and Charles Wesley, 144 anti-Methodist riots, 102 Bakker, Jim, 277, 279 antinomianism, 111, 192, 309 Baltic States, 259 antislavery, 70–73 Baltimore, Maryland, 247, 248, 284, 289, Methodist women, 72 290 apartheid, 252 bands, 51, 91, 93 Apostle John, 2, 105 Bristol, 95 Apostolic Constitutions, 228 Moravian, 93 Apostolic Faith, 274, 276, 277 Bangs, Nathan, 265 Archbishop Moore, 36 Bank of England, 16 archbishop of Canterbury, 19, 34, 44, 57 baptism, 36, 203, 239, 307, 308 Ariarajah, S. Wesley, 254 as initiation, 240 Arminian Magazine, 23, 71, 107, 132, 153, as sign, 307 154, 156, 160, 168, 188, 219, 221 Azusa, 277 against Calvinist doctrines, 155 by fire, 272 Arminianism, 190, 192, 193, 195, 199, 201, by immersion, 228 206 infant, 239–240, 306–307 English, 192, 205 new birth, 240, 306 Armour, Andrew, 253, 254 of dynamite. See Irwin, B.H, Arnett, Benjamin W., 293 of fire, 273 Article of Religion XIX, 99 of the Holy Ghost. See also Baptism:of Asbury, Francis, 246–248, 264, 282–283, the Holy Spirit 300 of the Holy Spirit, 264, 275 American Methodism, 286 of the Spirit, 263 bishop, 248 renewal of, 240 general superintendent, 57 spirit, 267 superintendent, 247–248 baptismal regeneration, doctrine of, 239, Ascension Day, 92 306–307 Asian Methodist Council, 256 Anglicans, 306 Assemblies of God, 263, 277–279, 281 dissenters, 306 assurance Baptists, 34, 278, 280, 283, 308 degrees of, 48 Barbados, 250 John Wesley’s experience of, 47 Barratt, T. B., 277 of forgiveness, 51 Barratt’s Chapel, Delaware, 247 of Spangenberg, August, 47 Basingstoke, 84, 139 assurance, doctrine of, 201, 202, 229 Bath, 28, 90, 96 baptism, 239 Bauchi province, Nigeria, 251 astronomy, 163–166 Baxter, John, 249 Atlanta, Georgia, 294 Baxter, Richard, 147–148 Atlay, John, 133 A Call to the Unconverted (1782), 156 Australasian Methodist Conference, 256 Aphorisms of Justiﬁcation, The Saints’ Australia, 255, 256, 277 Everlasting Rest, and A Call to the Australian Methodist Church, 257 Unconverted, 148

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The Reformation of the Liturgy (1661), Book of Common Prayer (1549), 228, 230 227 Book of Discipline of The United Bayly, Lewis Methodist Church Practice of Piety, 147 clergy, 297 Bebbington, David, 116, 146 Book of Discipline of The United Beecher-Stowe, Harriet, 268 Methodist Church, 313 Belgium, 259 Book of Discipline of the United Bell, George, 56 Methodist Church (1972), 313 Bengel, Johann, 125 Book of Discipline of The United Benin, 251 Methodist Church (2004) Bennet, John, 98 Boards of Ordained Ministry, 314 Bennett, Dennis Our Theological Task, 314 St. Mark’s Episcopal, 279 Book of Homilies, 85 Benson, Joseph, 55, 132, 137 Book of Resolutions of the United Betty Methodist Church, 220 conversion of, 282 Booth, Catherine and William, 267 Birch Freeman, Thomas, 251 Boston, 52, 268 Bishop of Bristol.SeeButler, Joseph Botswana, 252 Bishop, Mary, 55 Bowling Green, 140 bishops, 25, 30, 51, 101, 235, 294, 310 Bowne, Borden Parker, 302 African Methodist Episcopal Church Bowyer, John, 157 (AME), 293 Boyle, Robert, 182 African Union Methodist Protestant Bradburn, Samuel Church, 287 An Address to the People Called American Methodist, 240 Methodists; Concerning the Anglican, 64, 65, 247, 248 Wickedness of Encouraging Slavery, black, 296 72 Church of England, 247 Brainerd, David Established Church, 63 An Extract of the Life of the Late Rev. female, 296 Mr. David Brainerd, 156 Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC), 247 Journal (1768), 156 Methodist Episcopal Church South Branham, William, 278 (MECS), 291 Bray, Dr Thomas, 148 Union Methodist Episcopal Church, 287 Bray, John, 49 Black Methodists for Church Renewal, 296 Brevint, Daniel Black Power, 296 Christian Sacrament and Sacriﬁce Black, William, 246, 248 (1673), 230 Blackmore, Richard, 184 Bristol, 55, 83–85, 87, 90, 91, 93–95, 100, Blackstone, William, 104 103, 104, 132, 137, 139, 140, 157, 187 Bland, Lady Ann, 30 anti-revival activity, 95 Boardman, Richard, 57 Baldwin Street, 86 Boardman, William E., 269, 271 Baptist Mills, 89, 90 The Higher Christian Life, 267 dispensaries, 179 Boddy, A. A., 277 New Room, 104 Boehme, Jakob, 82 poorhouse, 90 Boerhaave, Hermann, 185 printers in, 157 Bohler,¨ Peter, 47, 48 rector, 95 Bolivia, 258 the Glasshouse, 141 Bolton, Ann, 134 West Country port of, 83 Bombay (Mumbai), 250, 253 Britain, 5, 15, 17, 24, 61, 68, 69, 71, 73, 82, Bonnet, Charles, 172 96, 246, 248, 252, 257, 264, 300 Book of Common Prayer, 84, 85, 93, 227, war with America, 74 234, 301 war with France, 74

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British Methodism Calvinists, 54–56, 142, 146, 191, 192, 301 in Asia, 254 Cambridge University, 29 in Europe, 259 Campbell, Sophia, 249, 260 British Methodist Church, 251, 255 Canada, 246–248, 250, 277, 287 British Methodists, 254, 257, 259 Canadian Methodists, 248 in Fiji, 257 Cape Coast, Africa, 251 British United Methodist Free Church, 253 Cape of Good Hope, 250 British Wesleyan Conference, 248, 250 capitalism, 68 Brooke, Henry Carey, Jr., Archibald J., 294, 295 The Fool of Quality as The History of Cargill, David and Margaret, 257 Henry Earl of Moreland (1781), 155 Caribbean Islands, 73, 249, 250, 297 Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, 295 Caroline Divines, 192 Brown, Morris, 290 Carter, R. Kelso, 271 Brown, Oliver L., 294 Cash, Johnny, 277 Buchan, William, 182, 184 Catholics, 29, 71, 93, 94, 278, 279 Domestic Medicine (1769), 182 Caughey, James, 269 Buddaeus, John Francis Cave, William Elementa Philosophiae Practicae et Primitive Christianity, 227, 233 Theoreticae (1703), 187 Cennick, John, 51, 53, 94 Buddeus, Johann Franz, 168 Census of Religious Worship (1851), 62 Bulgaria, 259 Central Africa, 253 Bunton, Henry C., 295 Ceylon (Sri Lanka), 250, 253–254 Bunyan, John chain of being, 161, 171–173 The Pilgrim’s Progress, 152, 156, 158 Challoner, Richard, 150 Burma (Myanmar), 254, 255 Chambers, Jenny, 49 Butler, Joseph, 95 charismatic, 1, 69, 262, 279, 280 Butterfield, Herbert evangelists, 81 A History of the Methodist Church, 24 charismatic movement, 263, 281 The Origins of Modern Science (1949), Charleston, South Carolina, 150 162 Charterhouse school, 43 Butterfield, Herbert Sir Cheyne, George, 183, 184 The Whig Interpretation of History Essay of Health and Long Life (1724), (1931), 16 181 Butterfield, Sir Herbert Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases A History of the Methodist Church in (1742), 184 Great Britain (1965), 16 China, 246, 255, 261, 277 Byrom, John nineteenth century, 255 The Universal English Shorthand (1767), Chinese civil war, 255 135 Chit-Chat Club, San Francisco, 161 Chocktaws, 84 Cadogan, William Christ Church, Oxford, 43 Dissertation on the Gout, and All Christian and Missionary Alliance, 274 Chronic Diseases (1771), 187 Christian conferencing, 92, 138, 229 Calne, 139 Christian life, 45, 92, 120, 129, 169, 192, Calvin, John, 106, 129 199, 208, 210, 221, 222, 240–241, 264, Institutes of the Christian Religion, 129, 269, 299, 303, 306 301 as Trinitarian, 206 The Knowledge of God and of Ourselves Christian Perfection Mutually Connected, 129 doctrine of, 8, 51, 117, 204–205, 263, 264, Calvinism, 52, 54, 191, 248, 301, 309 301, 309–311 Calvinist failure, 111 irresistible grace, doctrine of, 201 preaching of, 56 Calvinist Methodists, 55 Christian Perfection, doctrine of, 264

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Christmas Conference (1784), 57, 247, 248, rectors, 30 284, 285 vicars, 30 Church in Africa, 251 Cock, Henry, 157 Church in the eighteenth century Coe, Jack, 278 industrialization, 27 Coke, Thomas, 57, 246, 248, 250, 253, 259, urbanization, 27 264 Church Missionary Society, 257 An Address to the Pious and Benevolent, Church of Christ (Holiness), 263 proposing an annual subscription for Church of England, 1–2, 7, 8, 14, 18, 25, Missionaries in the Highla nds and 33–38, 43, 51, 52, 57, 62, 63, 65, 73, adjacent Islands of Scotland, the Isles 75–77, 84, 85, 87, 93, 99, 101, 147, 148, of Jersey, Guernsey, and 153, 181, 225–227, 232, 235, 239–240, Newfoundland, the West Indies and 246, 298–300, 306–308 the provinc es of Nova Scotia and Church of God (Anderson, Indiana), 263, Quebec, 249 272, 275 in North America, 248–250 Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee), superintendent, 57, 247 273, 277 Collier, Jeremy Church of God in Christ (Memphis, Reasons for restoring some Prayers and Tennessee), 263, 272, 277 Directions (1717), 230 Church of North India, 254 Colombo, 253 Church of South India, 254 colonists, 84 Church of the Nazarene, 258, 272, 280, Colored Methodist Episcopal Church 281, 310 (CME), 275, 292–294 baptism, 307 Mt. Olive, 295 entire sanctification, 310 communion Church-and-King riots (1790’s), 34 as converting ordinance, 229, 308 churches frequency of, 206, 230 eighteenth-century, 30 infant baptism, 308 Cincinnati, Ohio, 275 Cone, Cecil W., 296 circuit riders, 251 Cone, James H., 296 civil rights, 288, 294–296 Confederacy, 291 Clapham sect, 88 Congo, 252 Clark, J.C.D. Congo Mission Conference, 253 English Society, 1688–1832 Ideology, Congregationalists, 34, 248, 254, 256 Social Structure and Political Practice Congress of Racial Equality (CORE), 294, during the Ancien Regime (1985), 18 295 Clark, Jonathan Constantine the Great, 63 English Society 1688–1832, 69 conversion classes, 51, 62, 66, 73, 86, 93, 233, 246, as assurance, 229 276 as instantaneous, 309 Claxton, Marshall baptism, 306 Holy Triumph, The Death of John doctrine of, 106, 304–306 Wesley, 3 evangelical, 269, 306 Clayton, John, 45 evidence of, 91 Clement, Rufus E., 294 individual, 91 clergy, 19, 25–31, 34, 36–38, 60, 63, 85, 87, initial, 263 93–94, 103, 247, 297 Methodist, 284 African American, 289 Moravian, 142 Anglican, 25–26, 64, 75, 87, 247, 248 Protestant concept of, 81 Black Methodist, 283, 291 Wesleyan rituals of, 283 education of, 148 Cookman, Alfred, 268 eighteenth-century, 31 Cooper, Jane, 153 Methodist, 285 Cork, Ireland, 96

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Corporation for the Sons of the Clergy, 33 Douglass, Frederick, 276, 288–289 Costa Rica, 258 Dover, Thomas, 183 Coughlan, Lawrence, 246 Dowie, John Alexander, 271, 274 Count Zinzendorf, 49 Dr. Morley, 44 Counter-Reformation Catholic, 82 du Plessis, David, 278 Countess of Huntingdon, 50, 55, 88 Dublin, Ireland, 207 covenant of grace, 191–193, 196–201 Duke of Buckingham, 43 covenant of works, 193, 195–199 Duke University, 9 Cowper, William, 92 Dummer, 139 Creeks, 84 Duquesne University, 279 Croatia, 260 Durham, Maine, 274 Cross, William, 257 Cuba, 258 early Christianity.Seeprimitive Cullis, Charles, 271 Christianity Curnock, Nehemiah, 135, 137 early church.Seeprimitive church Czechoslovakia, former, 259 East India Company, 254 Eayrs, George, 132 Dahomey, 251 ecclesiolae in ecclesia, 86 Dalit community, 254 Ecumenical Methodist Conference (1881), David, Christian, 49 292 Davis, Dandridge, 289 ecumenical movement, 111, 254, 258, 278, Davis, Sarah F., 297 292, 302–303 De Laine, J. A., 294 Edwards, Jonathan Deacon, Thomas, 228 Account, 156 Compleat Collection of Devotions, 228 Faithful Narrative, 85, 152 Declaration of Independence, 246 The Distinguishing Marks of a Work of Deed of Declaration (1784), 57 the Spirit of God (1744), 156 Defoe, Daniel, 145 eighteenth century, 83, 183 Delamotte, Charles, 46 Anglican reform, 32 Delaware, 247, 283, 287 Anglican theologians, 201 Denmark, 259 anti-Methodist literature, 69 Dent, Arthur anti-Methodist rhetoric, 66 Plain Man’s Pathway to Heaven, 147 Britain, 5, 23, 25, 132, 145 Derham, William, 173 Church, 26, 27, 34 Astro-Theology (1715), 169, 187 Church of England, 25, 26, 33 Physico-Theology (1713), 169, 187 church-building, 27 Descartes, Rene,´ 165 England, 1, 14, 51, 68, 115, 118, 164, 166, Dickson White, Andrew 227, 302 History of the Warfare of Science with English revival, 82 Theology in Christendom (1896), 160 English society, 69 dissent, 25, 34–36, 75, 101 English theologians, 191 Puritan, 43 life, 67 dissenters, 34, 36, 37, 153 medicine, 177 early Methodism, 36–37 Methodist impact on, 61 Protestant, 29, 36 modern, 15–16 Dissenters, 36, 94 revisionist interpretation, 20–26, 35 divine image, 209 science, 162 divine inscrutability, doctrine of, 201 Scripture, study of, 115 Doddridge, Philip, 92, 125 secularization, 21 Dodsley, Robert, 155 election, doctrine of, 52, 53, 119, 192, 309 Dominica, 250 Embury, Philip, 246, 286 Dominican Republic, 258 empirical methodology, 184, 185 double cure. See sanctification empirical methods, 183

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empirical theology, 161 evangelicals, 89, 119, 148, 263, 266, 267, empirical tradition, 178 270 empiricism, 38, 115, 116, 161 Evening Light Saints, 275 including spiritual senses, 116 experience, 38, 81, 85, 93, 100, 111, 115, Lockean, 91 116, 118, 125, 127–129, 137, 155, 231, England, 1, 8, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20, 25, 47, 49, 239, 263, 290, 304, 313, 315 52, 57–59, 62, 63, 65, 72, 75, 77, 84, 86, as instantaneous, 305, 310 99, 100, 105, 113, 114, 116, 121, 124, Christian conversion, 306 142, 148, 150, 153, 162, 165, 169, 190, conversion, 33 201, 218, 226, 227, 235, 237, 239, 247, empirical warrant, 181 251, 256, 267, 269, 270, 277, 282, 299 heartwarming, 305 ancien regime´ , 74 extempore prayer, 63–64 as confessional state, 76 constitutional changes of 1828–32, 18 faith empirical medicine, 189 as ﬁducia, 197 evangelicals in, 267 as intellectual assent (assensus), 197 industrial, 73 as personal trust, 197 secularization of, 18 awakening of, 112 slavery, 72 doctrine of, 51 English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC), 144 justifying, 48, 50 Enid, Oklahoma, 273 sermons on, 110 Enlightenment, 15, 17, 21, 23, 25, 37, 38, faith healing, 271 66, 91, 113, 115, 116, 170, 178 Farmer, James L., 294, 295 as anti-religious, 37 Farrow, Lucy, 276 British, 25 fasting, 49, 50, 213, 228 emphasis on equality of humankind, 38 Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, 260 emphasis on human potential, 38 field preaching, 63, 69, 83–84, 87–89, 91, emphasis on optimism, 38 100, 101, 136–138 emphasis on perfectibility, 38 Fiji, 257 English, 37 Finland, 259 entelechy, 164, 165 Finney, Charles Grandison, 266, 267, enthusiasm, 19, 39, 65, 67, 69, 74, 116, 186, 269 202, 280, 281 Fire-Baptized Holiness Church, 273 characteristic of early Methodist revival, First World War, 256 90 Fisk, Wilbur, 265 enthusiast, 65 Fletcher, John, 55–56, 264, 267, 272, 301 entire sanctification, 8, 204, 205, 264, 267, Checks to Antinomianism, 55 269, 270, 288, 309–311 on Christian Perfection, 301 as gradual growth, 309–311 on predestination, 301 as instantaneous, 56, 309–311 Reformed tradition, 288, 301 subsequent to justification, 310 Fleury, Abbe´ and Pierre Poiret Ephraim Syrus, 219 Instructions for Children (1745), 156 Epworth, 3, 35, 43, 44 Form of Discipline (1797), 65 Established Church, 61, 62, 65, 72, 74, 76 Foundery, The, 52 Estonia, 259 Moorfields, 157 Ethiopian Church of Mangena Mogone printers in, 157 (ECMM), 252 France, 259 Eucharist, 93, 228, 295. See also Franciscans.Seerevivalism communion Francke, A. H., 86 Evangelical Association, 259 Nicodemus, 150 Evangelical Revival, 1, 8, 135, 142 Franklin, Benjamin, 86, 173, 187 Evangelical United Brethren, 251, 296, 312 Free African Society, 285 Confession of Faith, 312 Free Methodist Church, 263, 268

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Free Methodists, 258, 280 Hagee, John, 279 baptism, 307 Haime, John, 153 Free Wesleyan Church, 257 Haiti, 258 French Revolution, 14, 20, 72–75, 77 emigration, 288 Fry, Joseph, 157 Haliburton, Thomas, 150 Full Gospel Businessmen’s Fellowship Handel, George Frederick, 245 International, 278 Hanham Mount, 140 Hardenburgh, Isabella, 288 Garrettson, Freeborn, 282, 283 Harford-Battersby, Canon, 269 Garrison, William Lloyd, 267 Harper, Elizabeth, 153 General Conference (1820), 250 Harris, Howell, 35, 53, 142 General Conference (1972), 313 Hartzell, Joseph Crane, 253 General Conference (1984) Hasidic movement, 82 Committee on Our Theological Task Hawaii, 277 (COTT), 313 Hawes, Dr. William, 183 General Rules (1743), 151 Hawes, Robert, 133, 157 General Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Haydon, John Society (WMMS), 250 conversion of, 95 Georgia, 46, 84–86, 93, 100, 148, 150, 245, Heck, Barbara, 246 265, 290, 294 Hedley Brooke, John, 170 German pietists, 85.Seerevivalism Heitzenrater, Richard P., 9, 88, 107, 108, Germany, 86, 259, 302 134, 135, 137, 154, 281, 305, 313, 315 Ghana, 251, 280 Elusive Mr. Wesley, 77 Ghost Dance.Seerevitalization Wesley and the People Called movements Methodists, The Elusive Mr. Wesley, Gibraltar, 250 Diary of an Oxford Methodist, Mirror Gilbert, Mary, 153, 249 and Memory, and The Poor and the Gilbert, Nathaniel, 249 People Called Methodists, 9 Glacken, Clarence, 172 Hempton, David, 5, 96, 260, 284 Glorious Revolution, 14, 36, 70 Henry, Matthew, 125 God’s Bible School, 275 Herrnhut, 33, 49, 140 Godbey, W. B., 271 Hervey, James, 45 Goldsmith, Oliver Theron and Aspasio, 53, 54 History of the Earth and Animated Hervey, William, 54 Nature (1774), 187 Eleven Letters from the late Rev. Mr. The Deserted Village, 95 Hervey to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley Good News, 280 containing an Answer to that Gooding, John, 157 Gentleman’s Remarks on Theron and Gordon, Lord George, 70 Aspasio, 54 Gospel Magazine, 55, 155 Heylyn, John, 125 Gouge, Thomas, 147 Higher Life, 274, 277 Gradin, Arvid, 49 Hildebrand, Reginald F., 291 Grahamstown, South Africa, 252 Hill, Richard, 146, 154 Grant, Jacqueline, 296 Hill, Richard and Rowland, 55 Green, Richard Hines, Mildred B., 297 The Works of John and Charles Wesley Hobbes, Thomas, 166 (1896), 144 Hocken, P. D., 280 Griffiths, Robin, 44 Holder, George, 150 Grimshaw, William, 57 holiness, 44, 47, 51, 54, 65, 66, 68, 71, 82, Guidry, Carolyn Tyler, 297 110, 112, 118, 119, 122, 189, 192, Gunning, Peter 194–195, 198, 202, 208–219, 221–224, The Paschal, or Lent Fast, Apostolical 236, 239, 262, 263, 279, 295, 302, and Perpetual (1662), 228 309–310 Guyse, John, 125 African-American, 275

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American Civil War, 268 hymn-singing, 84, 91–93, 231, 237 antebellum, 267 as evangelical experience, 92 as love, 121–122 Church of England, 231 as Wesleyan, 309 themes of, 92 churches, 307 divine healing, 271 Iglesia Metodista Pentecostal, 258 doctrine of, 51 immigrants, 94, 259 healing, 271, 274 imputation, doctrine of, 53 nineteenth-century, 266 India, 250, 251, 254, 257 opponents of, 270 Indianapolis, Indiana, 275 preaching of, 264, 265 Indonesia, 255 scriptural, 301 Industrial Revolution, 14, 75, 77 holiness churches, 310 Ingham, Benjamin, 46, 135 holiness movement, 262–266, 269, 273, Inskip, John S., 268, 271 274, 281, 310 instantaneous perfection, 309 nineteenth-century, 262 International Pentecostal Holiness Church, holiness, doctrine of 263, 281 Palmer, Phoebe, 266 interpretation of the Bible spread of, 267–269 as “analogy of faith”, 125 Holsey, Lucius H., 292 Interregnum, 147 Holy Club, 23, 45, 84, 180, 181, 225 inward religion, 44, 239 Holy Communion, 31, 138, 214 Ireland, 59, 96, 246 holy living, 85, 89, 90, 192, 299 irresistible grace, doctrine of, 52, 54 holy rollers.SeeAzusa Street Irwin, B. H., 272, 274 Holy Spirit, 44, 112, 123, 128, 200, Italy, 259 205–206, 226, 229, 262 itineracy.Seeitenerancy in-filling of the, 263 itinerancy inspiration of scripture, 302 early Methodism, 87 invocation of, 230 itinerancy, 87 sermons on, 110 itinerancy witness of the, 46, 110, 202 in American Methodism, 264 work of the, 199–201, 205–206 itinerant preachers, 94, 247, 260 Hong Kong, 255 itinerant preaching, 64, 72, 75–76, 142 Hooker, Richard, 169 Ivory Coast, 280 Hoosier, Harry, 283, 286 Houston, Texas, 275 Jackson, Mississippi, 275 Howard University, School of Religion, Jackson, Thomas, 132 294 Christian Library (1819–1827), 113, 144, Hudson, Winthrop S., 283 153–154 humanism Jacobite, 19, 60, 70 Renaissance, 116 Jacoby, Ludwig S., 259 Hume, David, 116 Jakes, T. D., 279 Humphreys, Joseph, 53, 94 Jamaica, 250 Humphries, Joseph, 51 James, Thomas, 289 Hungary, 259 Jesus People, 279 Hunt Jr., Earl G., 313 Jim Crow laws, 275, 276, 295 Hutton, James, 47, 49, 133, 139 John the Baptist, 272 Huxham, John, 185 Johnson, Samuel, 70 Hyderabad, 254 Jones, Absalom, 288 hymnody, 282, 297 Jones, C. P., 272, 275 Methodist, 285 Jones, Jeremiah, 124 hymns Jones, Sam, 270 inspired by Apostolic Constitutions, justification by faith, doctrine of, 85, 107, 230 120, 192, 197, 199, 306

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justification, doctrine of, 198, 236 Lesotho, 252 baptism of the Spirit, 263 Letters wrote by Jane Cooper (1764), 156 Moravians on, 48 Lewis, Jerry Lee, 277 sermons on, 110 liberation theology, 259, 261, 311, 312 Justin Martyr, 237 Liberia, 251, 293 Liden, J. H., 105 Kelly, Leontine T. C., 296 limited atonement, doctrine of, 142 Kent, 66, 178 Linner, Michael, 49 Kentucky, 289 Lithuania, 259 Kenya, 253 Locke, John, 116, 120, 161, 182, 186, 222 Kenyan Methodist Church, 253 London, 28, 32, 43, 47, 49–50, 56, 59, 72, Keswick conferences, 269 84, 87, 89, 92, 99, 115, 126, 133, 136, Keswick convention, 271 137, 139, 140, 147, 157–158, 181, 187, Keswick, England, 269, 270 235, 249, 269, 292, 309 King George Typo I, 257 Aldersgate, 85 King, B. B., 277 dispensaries, 179 King, L. S., 178 Fetter Lane Society, 86, 139, 229 King, Peter, 235 Foundery, The, 94 Kings Weston Hill, 92 Moravian community, 136 Kingswood, 90, 234 printers in, 157 Kingswood Book series, 6 London Dispensary, 183 Kingswood School, 52, 150–151 long eighteenth century, 5, 24, 61, 113, 190, Kirkham, Robert, 45 191 Kirkham, Sally, 44 Lord’s Supper, 50, 203, 213, 225, 229, 238, Knapp, Martin Wells, 274, 275 240, 307 Korean Methodist Church, 256 hymns, 230, 231 Kosovo, 260 Los Angeles, California, 262, 276, 277 1906 revival, 262 Lady Huntingdon, 55, 101 Louisiana, 275, 290 Lady Huntingdon’s Connection, 53 love feasts, 233, 238 Lampe, John Frederick, 232 Moravian, 51, 93, 233 Latin America, 257, 258, 280 Lovett, Richard, 173, 187 house churches, 280 Loyola, Ignatius, 129 Latvia, 259 Spiritual Exercises, 129 Laud, William, 192, 201 Luther, Martin, 89, 106, 195 Law, William, 44, 159, 191 justification, doctrine of, 276 A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Preface to the Epistle to Romans, 47, 305 Life, 44 Lutherans, 119, 153 A Serious Call to a Holy and Devout Lynch, James, 254 Life, 150, 156 A Serious Call to a Holy Life Macarius, 153 printing of, 157 Madame Guyon, 272 Christian Perfection, 44, 150, 156 Madras (Chennai), 253 Lawson, Jr., James M., 294, 295 Mahan, Asa, 266, 269, 271 lay preachers, 8, 29, 33, 51, 53, 150, 182, Malaysia, 255 237 Manchester, 28, 30, 72 women, 94 Mandalay, 254 lay-preaching, 64 Mandela, Nelson, 253 Le Faucher, Michel, 105 Maori people of New Zealand, 257, 260 Lee, James, 161 March on Washington Movement, 295 Lee, Jesse, 264 Marlborough, 139 Leeds, Scotland, 250 Maryland, 246, 293 Leigh, Samuel, 256 Mason, C. H., 272

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mathematics, 162, 163 Methodist Conference (1763), 57 Maxfield, Thomas, 51, 56, 237 Methodist Conference (1770) conversion of, 94, 100 Minutes, 55 McKenzie, Vashti Murphy, 297 Methodist Conference (1784), 57 McLoughlin, William, 81 Methodist Episcopal Church (MEC), 57, Mead, Richard, 184, 185 246, 248, 251, 254–256, 259, 264, 284, means of grace, 45, 49, 50, 89–90, 142, 203, 289–294 204, 211, 228–230, 241, 308 Africa, 251 Christian conversation, 90 Asbury, Wilmington, Delaware, 287 communion, 308 Frederick Douglass, 289 Fetter Lane Society, 204 General Conference (1870), 265 justification, 204 General Conference (1878), 265 Lord’s Supper, 45, 229 John Street, 286 prayer, 45, 50, 66, 188, 213, 229, 299 Liberia Conference, 251 preaching, 103 missionaries, 258, 291 Scriptures, 45 Methodist Episcopal Church North medicine (MECN), 287, 289 eighteenth-century, 176 Methodist Episcopal Church South Melbourne, Australia, 256 (MECS), 255–256, 259, 287, 289–293 Memphis, Tennessee, 295 missionaries, 258 Merritt, Timothy, 266, 267 Methodist History, 6 Guide to Christian Perfection, 267 Methodist New Connexion, 255 Methodism Methodist Protestant Church, 293 anti-slavery, 71–72 Methodist women, 72, 260 as agents of change, 16 Methodists as populist puritanism, 65–66 eighteenth-century, 209 Dissent, 64 Latin America, 261 end of eighteenth century, 61–62 Miley, John, 302 in North America, 264–266 millennial, 263, 293 in the United States, 65 Ethiopianism, 293 independence from Church of England, Mills, William, 161 57–58 John Wesley an Evolutionist, 161 institutional structure of, 57 Miss Gilbert, 158 Wesley’s conception of, 63 missionaries, 57, 85, 250–255, 257, 258, Methodist 261 “catholicity”, 52 Missionary Society of the Methodist band, 51 Episcopal Church, 250 bands, 229 missions charismatics, 280 overseas, 250 classes, 51, 229 Mississippi, 272, 275 work ethic, 68–69 Missouri Annual Conference, 290 Methodist Church (MC), 293–294, 296, 312 Model Deed, 57, 109 Articles of Religion, 312 modern era, 14, 183 Methodist Church in New Zealand, 257 Mogoba, Mmutlanyane Stanley, 253 Methodist Church in Sri Lanka The, 253 Molther, Philip Heinrich, 49 Methodist Church of Australasia, 256 Molther, Philip Henry Methodist Church of Brazil, 258 assurance, doctrine of, 229 Methodist Church of Mexico, 258 Molther, Philipp Heinrich, 49 Methodist Church of Nigeria, 251 Montanism.Seerevivalism Methodist Church of Southern Africa, 252 Montgomery, Alabama, 294, 295 Methodist Conference (1744), 94 Moody, Dwight, 271, 274 Minutes, 228 Moore, John, 29 Methodist Conference (1745), 48 moral image, 194

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Moravian Newberry Courthouse, South Carolina, quietism, 89 290 Moravians, 48–51, 85, 86, 136, 142, 152, Newburgh, New York, 286 229, 231, 233 Newbury, 139 English, 48–50, 133 Newcastle, 28, 33, 157 German, 49 printers in, 157 More, Hannah, 72 Newfoundland, 58, 246, 249 Morgan, G. Campbell, 269 Newgate, 90 Morgan, William, 45 Newton, Isaac, 162–166 Morrison,H.C.,274 General Scholium, 166 Mrs. Grevil, 137, 138, 141 Principia Mathematica, 163 Mrs. Lefevre, 153 Newton, John, 91, 92 Mrs. Norman, 141 Nigeria, 251, 280 Murray, Grace, 98 Niles, D. T., 254 nineteenth century, 67, 144, 155, 163, 259, NAACP, 294 264, 270, 301 Namibia, 252 American Methodists, 254, 258 Nash, Beau, 96 artists, 3 Nast, Wilhelm, 259 Biblical authority, 113 National Association of Evangelicals, Church, 26 279 Church reformers, 31 National Camp Meeting Association for church-building, 28 the Promotion of Holiness Churchmen, 26 (NCMAPH), 268 England, 62 National Urban League, 294 historical criticism, 126 natural image, 194, 195 long eighteenth century, 24 natural law, 50, 165, 168 Methodist historians, 146 natural philosophy, 39, 163–171, 173, 175, natural theology, 169 187 radical causes, 73 eighteenth century, 167 reforms of, 27 natural theology, 168–169 sanctification debate, 310 nature, study of United States, 309 ars, 164 Wesley Studies, 5 scientia, 163 Nipert, Ludwig, 259 Nelson, John, 153 nonconformist, 34–37, 73, 147, 153, 299 An Extract from John Nelson’s Journal Non-Jurors, 227, 234 (1782), 156 Norfolk, Virginia, 276 neo-pentecostalism, 277, 279, 280 Norris, John, 150 in Catholicism, 279 A Treatise on Christian Prudence and neo-pentecostals, 280 Reﬂections upon the Conduct of Nevis, 250 Human Life (1734), 156 New Bedford, Massachusetts, 289 North America, 32, 46, 57–58, 82, 85, 109, new birth, 108 235, 246–248, 261, 277 baptism, 240 British colonies, 283 doctrine of, 48, 54, 239 colonial, 282, 283 experience of, 47, 120, 200 evangelicals in, 267 Moravians on, 48 Methodism, 248 sermons on, 110 slavery in, 72 New Orleans, Louisiana, 290 North Carolina, 283 New York, 246, 266, 268, 282, 286 Norway, 259, 277 New York City, New York, 267, 286, 290 Notre Dame University, 279 New York East Conference, 268 Nova Scotia, 58, 246, 248–249 New Zealand, 256, 260, 277 Nyack, New York, 274

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O’Kelly, James, 282, 283 Perronet, Vincent, 178, 179 Oberlin College, 267 Perry, Mattie, 271 octagonal buildings, 237 perseverance of the saints, doctrine of, 52 old dissent, 34 Person, Ole Peter, 259 Oord, Thomas Jay, 310 Perth, Australia, 256 open table.SeeLord’s Supper Peru, 258 opium wars of 1839–44 and 1856–60, 255 Peter, 120 Origen, 123 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 246, 283, 285, original sin, doctrine of, 126 286, 288, 290, 293 overseas missions, 248, 250 Philippines, 256 Owen, John, 153 Pierce, Lovick, 265 Oxford Institute of Methodist Theological pietism, 82 Studies, The, 6, 312 pietists, 52, 119, 153 Wesley Studies, 9 piety, 1, 27, 43, 45, 101, 105, 136, 141, Oxford Methodism, 45 180–181, 183, 188, 208, 226, 235, 239, Oxford Methodists, 82, 135 315 Oxford University, 1, 52, 170, 299 Anglican, 182 Ozman, Agnes, 275 Church of England, 61 English Enlightenment, 37 Pacific Ocean, 257 lay, 33 Painter, Nell, 288 Reformation influence, 31 Pakistan, 254 Pilgrim Holiness Church, 258, 272 Palmer, Phoebe, 266–268, 270, 310 Pillsbury, Parker, 289 Economy of Salvation (1866), 266 Pilmore, Joseph, 57 Panama, 258 Pitt, William, 218 Paraguay, 258 plain speech, 182 Paramore, George, 157 Plan of Paciﬁcation (1795), 65 Paramore, John, 157 Plumb, J. H., 177 parenting, 215, 222, 223 pluralism, 25, 27, 30, 261, 308, 313 Parham, Charles Fox, 273–276 Poland, 259 pentecostal theology, 276 Poole, Matthew, 125 third blessing, 274 Popular Science Monthly Parker, Henry Perlee, 3 John Wesley an Evolutionist, 161 Parks, Rosa, 294, 295 Porter, Roy, 177 Parsons, John and James Barker, 158 Portugal, 259 Payne, Daniel A., 291 Potter, John, 34, 44 Peck, T. J., 265 Powell, Samuel, 157 Pendle Forest, 96 practical divinity, 93, 127, 147, 151, 232, Pennsylvania, 246, 268 285, 287–288, 297 pentecostal, 1, 258, 262, 263, 270, 273, 274, pragmatism, 266 278 prayer, 57, 76, 90, 92, 178, 187, 188, 200, Protestants, 279 232, 237, 238, 240, 267, 280 televangelists, 277 pentecostal, 258 Pentecostal Assemblies of the World, 281 preaching houses, 158, 237 Pentecostal Holiness Church (Georgia and predestination, doctrine of, 53, 54, 192 the Carolinas), 277 premillennialism, 270–271, 275 pentecostal movement, 281 Calvinistic, 271 pentecostalism, 258, 262–264, 273–274, doctrine of, 271 277–281 nineteenth-century, 270 perfectionism, 66, 263, 265, 268, 275, 288 Presbyterians, 34, 248, 254, 256, 278, Perkins, William 280 The Foundation of Christian Religion, Presley, Elvis, 277 147 Price, J. C., 292

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Priestley, Joseph, 187 Republic of Macedonia, 260 dissenter, 34 Republic of South Africa, 252 priests ressourcement, 227, 228, 230, 234 Established Church, 63 Restoration, 21, 147 primitive Christianity, 84, 180–182, 226 of 1660, 18 primitive Church, 179, 180, 183, 247, 261 revelation, 101, 115–117, 169, 275 Primitive Methodist Church, 251 revitalization movements, 82 Primitive Methodists, 253, 255, 256 revival, 8, 52, 67, 76, 83, 86, 88–89, 92–96, Protestant Association against the Catholic 116, 142, 220, 262, 266–270, 276–277, Relief Act (1778), 70 299, 309 Protestant Three-Self Patriotic Movement, charismatic, 277 255 early Methodist, 90 publishing eighteenth-century, 87 eighteenth-century, 144 English, 82 Puerto Rico, 258 English evangelical, 81 Puritan, 147, 188, 190, 192, 266 experience, 92 Puritanism, 82, 191 experiences, 91 Puritans, 153, 191, 299 hymns, 92, 93 imagery, 274 Quakers, 34, 94, 269 interracial, 276 Quinn, William Paul, 290 Jacobite leaders, 70 liturgy, 91 Rack, Henry Methodist wing of, 1 Reasonable Enthusiast John Wesley and Reformed wing, 56 the Rise of Methodism, 13 theology of, 92 Ranaghan, Kevin, 279 revivalism, 81–83, 87, 88, 95 Randolph, A. Philip, 294 Methodist element of, 82 Rangoon (Yangon), 254 Richards, Thomas, 95 Rankin, Thomas, 57, 58 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 261 Ray, John, 174, 187 Rivington, Charles, 148 The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Roberts, Oral, 277–278 Works of the Creation (1691), 170, 172, Oral Roberts University, 278 187 Roman Catholic Church, 257 Reconstruction, 290 Roman Catholics, 32, 71, 73, 299 rector post-Reformation, 153 of Lincoln College, 44 Romanticism, 22, 39 Rees, Seth Cook, 274 Roosevelt, Franklin D. Reform Bill crisis (1831–32), 74 Executive Order 8802(1941), 295 Reformation, 17, 23, 27, 33, 82, 86, 116, Rose Green, 140 119, 121, 146, 153 Rousseau, G.S., 178 influence of, 31 Rowe, Elizabeth, 155 Protestant, 113 Royal Humane Society, 183 Reformers, 123, 169 Royal Society for the Improvement of regeneration, 240 Natural Knowledge regeneration, doctrine of, 82, 118, 119 Philosophical Transactions, 160, 187 baptism, 240 Russia, 259 Protestant, 81 religious talk.SeeChristian conferencing salvation renewalists, 280 as an emancipatory act, 284 repentance, 44, 50, 104, 129, 199, 219, 226, full.Seesanctification 229, 240, 273 Salvation Army, The, 263, 270 doctrine of, 51 women preachers, 267 sermons on, 110 salvation by faith, 48

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salvation, doctrine of Sierra Leone, 250–252, 293 sermons on, 110 simplicity, 117, 227, 232, 235–238, 241 sanctification, 198, 203, 205, 210, 263–264, Simpson, A. B., 271, 274 266, 269, 272, 276, 288, 310 Simpson, A.B., 274 as a second work of grace, 276 Singapore, 255 as gradual growth, 305, 309 Sino-Japanese War (1937–45), 255 as instantaneous, 267, 304, 309, 311 sixteenth-century double cure, 266, 268, 272 reformers, 245 gradual perfection, 311 slavery, 52, 58, 70–73, 76, 130, 215–218, means of grace, 204 223, 265, 267, 268, 283–286, 288, 289, preaching of, 265 291 Sanctiﬁcation and Liberation: Liberation abolition of (1787), 58 Theologies in Light of the Wesleyan Arminian Magazine, 71 Tradition, 311 nineteenth century, 217 sanctifying grace, 50, 203, 204 Smith, Adam, 68 Sandford, Frank, 275 Smith, Amanda Berry, 270 satire Smith, Edwin W., 253, 261 eighteenth-century, 24 Smith, John, 48, 153 satyagraha (non-violent resistance), 296 Smith, Robert Pearsall, 269 Savannah, Georgia, 31, 47, 84 Smith, Timothy L., 314 scientia, 163 social holiness, 269, 270, 282, 288, 289, Scotland, 58, 59, 237, 249 292, 294, 297 Scougal, Henry social reforms The Life of God in the Soul of Man of Lutheran pietists at Halle, 52 (1744), 150, 156 societies, 51, 84, 86–87, 91, 93, 101, 152, scriptural Christianity, 52, 59, 228, 231 214 scripture Anglican, 61, 86 inspiration of, 302 Baldwin Street, 86, 90–93, 138, 141 salvation, 169 Bristol, 52, 94, 136 Seay,S.S.,294 Bristol, New Room, 92, 157 Secker, Thomas, 29, 34 Castle Street, 90 Second Great Awakening, 263, 266 expulsion from, 214 secularization, 15, 17, 22, 25, 33 Fetter Lane, 47, 49, 50, 86, 92, 121, 142, Semple McPherson, Aimee, 277, 279 204, 229, 233 Angelus Temple, 279 for the reformation of manners, 32, 37 Sermon on the Mount, 84, 110, 137, 196, Foundery, The, 50, 56, 157, 219 269 Gloucester Lane, 90 service to the poor, 45 Kingswood, 94 seventeenth century, 16, 24, 60, 77, 82, 163, London, 56, 100, 136 165 medical and scientific, 176 England, 227 Methodist, 20, 24, 50, 52, 64, 94, 108, natural theology, 169 150, 153, 157, 210, 212, 233 renewal movements, 82 Moravian, 47 Seymour, William J., 273, 275 New Chapel, City Road, 157 Shakarian, Demos, 278 Newgate chapel, 89 Sharp, Granville, 58, 71 Nicholas Street, 84, 86, 94 Shaw, Barnabas and Jane, 252 Oxford, 45 Shaw, Jane religious, 61, 63, 74, 76, 86, 90, 176 Miracles in Enlightenment England, tract, 148 39 United Society, 50 Shaw, William, 252 Weavers’ Hall, 90 Sheffield, 98 Wesleyan, 136 Shirley, Walter, 55 West Street, 56

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Society for the Abolition of the Slave Student Nonviolent Coordinating Trade, 71 Committee, 296 Society for the Promotion of Christian study of Scripture Knowledge (SPCK), 32, 61, 148, 181, separated from theological reflection, 246 126 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Sturgis, Stokeley, 283 Foreign Parts (SPG), 32, 148, 245 suicide, 218–221 Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Summerhill, Dame, 103 Georgia, 85 Sunday schools, 77 Society for the Reformation of Manners Suzuki, Akihito, 177 (SRM), 181 Swaggart, Jimmy, 277 South Africa, 261, 293 Swaziland, 252 nineteenth-century, 252 Sweden, 259 South African Methodism, 252 Switzerland, 259 South America, 258.SeeLatin America Sydenham, Thomas, 182–184, 186 South Carolina, 290 Sydney, Australia, 256 Southern African Conference, 252 Sykes, Norman, 26 Southern Magazine, 161 Souza, Jose´ Carlos de, 314 Tabernacle at Greenwich, England, 54 Soviet Union, former, 259 Taiping Rebellion.Seerevitalization Spangenberg, August, 46–47 movements Spanish Jews, 84 Tanner, Benjamin T., 293 Spanish-American War, 256 Tasmania, 256 Spencer, Peter, 286, 287 Taufa’ahau of Ha’apai, 257 Spener, P. J., 86 Taylor, Jeremy, 44, 152, 192 spiritual awakening, 129, 283 RulesandExercisesofHolyLivingand as emancipatory event, 284 Holy Dying, 44, 134 Spiritual Magazine, 155 Taylor, William, 251, 258, 261 spiritual senses, 199–201, 205 Te Haahi Weterianas O Aotearoa. See Sri Lanka, 254 Methodist Church in New Zealand St. Mary’s Church, 104 Tenison, Thomas, 28 St. Augustine Test Acts of 1673, 18 De civitate Dei, 238 Test Acts of 1678, 18 De Musica, 232 Texas Holiness Association, 272 St. James, 89 Textus Receptus, 121, 123 St. John, 117, 120, 206 Tharpe, Sister Rosetta, 277 St. Kitts, 250 The Bicentennial Edition of the Works of St. Louis, Missouri, 290 John Wesley, 144 St. Peter., 284 The Christian’s Pattern (1735), 149, 156, St. Peters, 90 158 St. Vincent, 250 The Church of the Nazarene, 263 Staples, Rob L., 310 the confessional state, 18, 22 Steele, Daniele, 271 The Life of God in the Soul of Man, 158 Stephen, Sir Leslie The Nature and Design of Christianity History of English Thought in the (1740), 156 Eighteenth Century (1876), 160 the poor, 1, 45, 52, 68–69, 84, 87–89, 92, 94, Stillingfleet, Edward, 235 100, 104, 141, 147, 150, 157, 173, 176, Storey, Peter, 261 178–180, 210, 212, 215, 238, 261, 269, Strahan, William, 157 297 Strawbridge, Robert, 246 the Reformers, 31 Stuart dynasty, 60, 88 The Simmonds, 46 Catholicism of, 60 The Thirty-Nine Articles of Religion, 85

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Theological Study Commission, 312 United Methodist Church, 251, 259, 296, theology 307, 308, 312–314 revisionist, 109 clergy, 211 third blessing, 272 pentecostalism, 280–281 third-wave Methodists. See Social Principles, 220 charistmatics:Methodist United Methodist Free Church, 255, 256 Thirty-Nine Articles of the Church of United Methodist Northern Europe England, 36 Conference, 259 Thomas Jackson, 7 United Methodists, 109, 280 Thompson, E. P., 66 United States, 176, 248, 263, 269, 288, 296, Making of the English Working Class, 300, 308, 309, 312 69, 75 United States Army, 290 Thorsen, Donald, 314 Uniting Church in Australia, 256 Tillotson, 153 universal atonement, doctrine of, 193, 301 Tilton, Robert, 279 University at St. Mary’s, 46 Tindley, Charles Albert, 293 University of Paris, 129 Tissot, Samuel University of Upsala, 1 L’Avis au Peuple sur sa Sante (1765), 185 Upham, Thomas C., 268, 272 Togo, 251 Uppsala, 105 Toland, John, 37 Toleration Act (1689), 35–37 Varick, James, 286 Toleration Act (1812), 72 Vasey, Thomas, 57, 247 Tomlinson, A. J., 274 Venezuela, 258 Tonga, 257 via salutis, 119, 210 tongues, 263–264, 267, 274–280 Vineland, New Jersey, 268 Topeka, Kansas, 274 Virginia, 283, 289 Tories, 60 virtue Tortola, 250 eighteenth-century, 39 total depravity, doctrine of, 198–199 voluntary poverty, 68 Treaty of Waitangi, 257 Treaty Ports, 255 Wake, William, 29 Trevecca, 55 Waldensians.Seerevivalism Trinidad, 250 Wales, 59 Trinity Broadcasting Network, 279 Walker, Samuel, 64 Trinity College, Dublin, 29 Walpole, Robert, 70 Truth, Sojourner, 289 Walsall, 102 assurance, experience of, 288 War of 1812, 248 baptism of the Holy Spirit, 288 Warner, Daniel S., 272 Tuesday Meeting for the Promotion of Warren, George, 251 Holiness. See Phoebe Palmer Washington, DC, 290, 291 Tulsa, Oklahoma, 280 Waters, Edward, 289 Tunisia, 253 Watson, G. D., 272, 274 Turner, Henry M., 252, 290, 293, 295 Watts, Isaac, 92, 150, 231 way of salvation, 129, 210 Ukraine, 259 Wearmouth, Robert, 74 Union Church of Africans, 287 Methodism and the Working Class Unitarian, 277, 281 Movements of England 1800–1850 United Brethren (1937), 74 in Germany, 259 Webb, Thomas, 246, 282, 286 United Brethren in Christ, 259 Wednesbury, 96, 102 United Church of Canada, 248 Weld, Theodore Dwight, 266 United Church of Pakistan, 254 Wesley Jr., Samuel, 155

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Wesley Studies, 5, 6, 9, 16 as anti-scientific, 162 working group for Oxford Institute for as anti-slavery, 72 Methodist Theological Studies, 9 as biblical interpreter, 114 Wesley Works Project, 7, 9 as dissenter, 116 Wesley, Charles, 8 as editor, 150, 168, 231, 299 Arm of the Lord, awake, awake, 92 as eighteenth-century writer, 150 Awake Thou that Sleepest, 110 as enthusiast, 177 Come, O thou Traveller unknown, 93 as latitudinarian, 116 conversion of, 45 as missionary, 46, 83, 86, 100, 148, 245, Hymns on the Great Festivals, and 246 Other Occasions (1746), 232 as revivalist, 5 loyalty to Church of England, 95 as saint, 111 on entire sanctification, 309 as Trinitarian, 84, 206, 209 Where Shall My Wond’ring Soul Begin, assurance, concept of, 48–50, 121, 229 93 assurance, experience of, 48, 84–85, 100, Wesley, John 305 “folk theologian”, 303 biographies of, 13 A Collection of Forms of Prayer (1733), Christian Library (1819–27), 144, 151 150 Christian Perfection (1741), 117, 119 A Collection of Moral and Sacred Poems Collection of Receipts for the Use of the from the Most Celebrated English Poor (1745), 179. See also Wesley, Authors (1744), 155 John: Primitive Physic or, An Easy and A Compendium of Natural Philosophy Natural Method of Curing Most (1763), 187 Diseases (1747) A Concise Ecclesiastical History (1781), compared to Francis Xavier and Ignatius 155 of Loyola, 65 A Concise History of England (1776), conception of Methodism, 63 155 conversion of, 13, 32, 44, 48 A Letter to the Printer of the Public Directions Concerning Pronunciation Advertiser occasioned by the Late Act and Gesture (1749), 105 Passed in Favour of Popery (1780), 70 Directions for Renewing Our Covenant A Plain Account of Christian Perfection, with God, 240 45, 152 Directions given to the Band Societies A Plain Account of the People Called (1744), 51 Methodists (1748), 178 editor, 170 as letter to Vincent Perronet, 133 emphasis on accountability, 142 A Plain Account of the People Called emphasis on evidence, 38 Methodists (1749), 233 emphasis on experience, 38, 308 A Preservative Against Unsettled empirical approach to medicine, 182, Notions of Religion (1758), 54 185 A Summary View of the Slave Trade, 72 empirical experience, 180 A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the enthusiast, 66 Creation (1763), 155, 175, 187 Essay of Health and Long Life, 184 Advice with Respect to Health (1769), Explanatory Notes upon the New 187 Testament, 57 An Essay upon the Stationary Fasts faith and reason, 39 (1773), 228 faith, concept of, 50 And Are We Yet Alive, 297 Free Grace, 52, 53, 107 Anglican bishops, 28 hagiography, 1–5 anti-Enlightenment, 38, 177 Holy Spirit, doctrine of the, 206 Arminianism, 38 homo unius libri, 45, 108, 113 as a son of the Enlightenment, 66 influence of, 1 as Anglican, 38 Jacobite sympathies, 70

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justification by faith, doctrine of, 54, 85, The Means of Grace, 229 118 The Nature, Design, and General Rules justification, doctrine of, 47, 56, 204 of the United Societies, 210 justification, experience of, 47 The New Creation (1785), 171 Letter to the Reverend Dr. Conyers The Sunday Service of the Methodists in Middleton (1749), 133 North America (1784), 57, 234, Moravian influence on, 46–50, 142 238–240, 300 nature of sin, 121 theory of evolution, 16, 161–162 on baptism, 306 Thoughts on Suicide, 218 on Christian Perfection, 188 Thoughts on the American Colonies on eighteenth-century life, 22–23, 130 (1775), 70 On God’s Vineyard, 45 Thoughts on the Imputed Righteousness on “gospel sermons”, 107 of Christ (1762), 54 on gradual growth, 311 Thoughts on the Power of Music (1779), on instantaneous change, 311 232 on new creation, 171, 206, 238, 260, Thoughts on the Scarcity of Provisions 287–288 (1773), 70 on original sin, 188 Thoughts Upon Liberty (1772), 70 on parenting, 221–223 Thoughts Upon Slavery (1774), 70–72 on slavery, 216–218 to American Methodists, 235 on societies, 210 to parents, 24, 60, 70, 125, 207 on spiritual awakening, 200 tract society, 156 on suicide, 218–221 Trinity, doctrine of the, 206 on the Sermon on the Mount, 269 use of biblical criticism, 123 ordination of preachers, 57–58, 64 view of Church of England, 64 Ought we to Separate from the Church view of original sin, 182 of England (1775), 234 Wesley, John and Charles, 46, 53, 57, 135, piety of, 1 144, 180, 264, 299 Primitive Physic or, An Easy and A Collection of Hymns for the Use of the Natural Method of Curing Most People Called Methodists (1780), 93, Diseases (1747), 151, 176, 177, 231 179–189 A Collection of Psalms and Hymns Puritan influence on, 85 (1737), 93, 150, 231 role of a bishop, 57 Anglican influence, 61 Rules for Preaching, 108 as undergraduates at Oxford, 180 Rules of a Helper, 108 Church of England, 2 Salvation by Faith, 197 communion, 307 Serious Thoughts Concerning Foundery Collection (1742), 232 Godfatherand Godmothers (1752), Hymns and Sacred Poems (1739), 92 240 Hymns on the Lord’s Supper, 230 Sermons on Several Occasions, 107–109, influences of, 61 111 Puritan influence, 61 sin, doctrine of, 49 Sacred Melody (1761), 232 Spiritual Idolatry, 121 sanctification, models of, 309 spiritual respiration, doctrine of, 200 Wesley, Samuel, 43, 60, 148 St. Augustine, 182, 228 Anglican, 60 The Circumcision of the Heart, 46 Dissenter, 33 The Desideratum or, Electricity Made Tory, 60 Plain and Useful (1760), 160, 173, 187 Wesley, Samuel Jr, 48 The General Deliverance (1781), 171 Wesley, Susanna, 43, 56, 95, 221, 222 The General Spread of the Gospel (1738), Anglican, 60 245 as Jacobite, 60 The Lord Our Righteousness, 54 Dissenter, 191

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Wesley, Susanna (cont.) Whitall, Hannah, 269, 270 on parenting, 222 Whitefield, George, 35, 45, 52–56, 82–89, Tory, 60 93–94, 100, 105, 137–142 Wesleyan Holiness Charismatic A Letter to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley in Fellowship, 280, 281 Answer to his Sermon entitled ‘Free Wesleyan Methodism, 14, 61, 69, 77, 245, Grace’, 53 249, 250, 253 as eighteenth century revivalist, 83 Wesleyan Methodist GrandItinerant., 87 preaching houses, 109 The Perfectionist Examined, 52 Wesleyan Methodist Church, 263 Whiteley, J. H. Wesleyan Methodist Missionary Society Wesley’s England A Survey of XVIIIth (WMMS), 250, 257 Century Social and Cultural Wesleyan Quadrilateral, 111, 312, 315 Conditions (1938), 13 Wesleyan Studies Working Group of the Wilberforce, William, 58, 72, 88, 130, AAR, 9 217 Wesleyan Theological Journal, 6, 111 Wilkes, John, 70 Wesleyan-holiness, 277 William, Prince of Orange, 60 Wesleyanism, 66, 248, 259, 260, 285 Wilmore, Kentucky, 280 as counter-enlightenment, 66 Wolfe, Francis, 132 revivalism, 87 Wood, J. A., 268 West Africa, 216, 251, 252 Woodseats, 98 Westall, Thomas, 95 word of faith theology, 277, 279 Western Christianity, 1, 111 World Methodist Council, 256, 258, 260 Westley, Bartholomew, 60 Wroot, 44 Westley, John, 60 Wyatt, James, 28 Westminster Confession, 207 Wynette, Tammy, 277 Westminster, London, 181, 207, 269 Whatcoat, Richard, 57, 247 xenoglossy.Seetongues Wheatley, James, 106 Whiston, William Zambezi Districts.SeeCongo The Liturgy of the Church of England, Zimbabwe, 253, 280 Reduc’d nearer to the Primitive Zimmerman, Thomas, 279 Standard (1713), 227 Zion City, Illinois, 274